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Beschreibung

Secure Your Water Supply with a Custom Rainwater Harvesting System
Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Rainwater Harvesting is the complete guide to designing, building, and maintaining rainwater systems for any home, acreage, or farm. Learn how to turn rainfall into a reliable, sustainable water source—even in arid or extreme climates.

What You'll Learn

  • Water Security and Independence: Harvest and manage rainwater to supplement or replace municipal or well water for your home or property.
  • Smart Planning and Conservation: Assess demand, optimize water use, and plan for droughts or extreme rainfall.
  • Custom System Design: Determine the right gutters, conveyance, tanks, pumps, and filtration methods for your site.
  • Water Quality Management: Pre-filtration, filtration, and disinfection strategies ensure safe, reliable water.
  • Step-by-step Installation Guidance: Detailed, practical instructions for DIYers, tradespeople, and sustainability practitioners.
  • Maintenance and Longevity: Learn methods to keep your system efficient, reliable, and long-lasting.

Written by Rob and Michelle Avis, engineers and permaculture designers with decades of experience, this guide combines practical know-how, technical rigor, and site-specific strategies for designing rainwater systems anywhere in the world.

Explore the full Sustainable Building Essentials series for illustrated, hands-on guidance on sustainable building systems, high-performance homes, and environmentally responsible construction.

Secure Your Water Supply with a Custom Rainwater Harvesting System
Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Rainwater Harvesting is the complete guide to designing, building, and maintaining rainwater systems for any home, acreage, or farm. Learn how to turn rainfall into a reliable, sustainable water source—even in arid or extreme climates.

What You'll Learn

  • Water Security and Independence: Harvest and manage rainwater to supplement or replace municipal or well water for your home or property.
  • Smart Planning and Conservation: Assess demand, optimize water use, and plan for droughts or extreme rainfall.
  • Custom System Design: Determine the right gutters, conveyance, tanks, pumps, and filtration methods for your site.
  • Water Quality Management: Pre-filtration, filtration, and disinfection strategies ensure safe, reliable water.
  • Step-by-step Installation Guidance: Detailed, practical instructions for DIYers, tradespeople, and sustainability practitioners.
  • Maintenance and Longevity: Learn methods to keep your system efficient, reliable, and long-lasting.

Written by Rob and Michelle Avis, engineers and permaculture designers with decades of experience, this guide combines practical know-how, technical rigor, and site-specific strategies for designing rainwater systems anywhere in the world.

Explore the full Sustainable Building Essentials series for illustrated, hands-on guidance on sustainable building systems, high-performance homes, and environmentally responsible construction.

Über den Autor

Rob Avis, [...] and Michelle Avis, [...] own and operate Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm for resilient homes, acreages, and farms. As skilled Professional Engineers with over 20 years of combined experience in project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies, they offer a depth of practical expertise in building science and appropriate technology (solar, wind, combined heat, and power), as well as agro-ecology, ecosystem engineering, soil regeneration, onsite wastewater treatment, and rainwater harvesting. In 2008, Rob and Michelle co-founded Verge Permaculture, now an internationally recognized award-winning regenerative education company, earning praise from permaculture leaders including Geoff Lawton, Toby Hemenway, and farming superstar Joel Salatin. They share information at [...] from their suburban house and yard that they've transformed into a model of cold-climate urban permaculture in Calgary, Alberta.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication

Foreword

How To Use This Book

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Fundamentals

Chapter 3: Feasibility

Chapter 4: Anatomy of a Rainwater System

Chapter 5: Collection and Pre-Filtration

Chapter 6: Storage

Chapter 7: Pumps

Chapter 8: Assuring End-Use Water Quality

Conclusion: The Importance of Good Design

Appendix A: Conversion Table

Resources and References

Index

About the Authors

A Note About the Publisher

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Bau- und Umwelttechnik
Genre: Importe, Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Sustainable Building Essentials Series
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780865718746
ISBN-10: 0865718741
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Avis, Michelle
Avis, Rob
Hersteller: New Society Publishers
Sustainable Building Essentials Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 282 x 220 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Michelle Avis (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2018
Gewicht: 0,606 kg
Artikel-ID: 111330684

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